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ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state 
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Newly installed doors seal tightly have a certain modern intrigue especially when their doubled paned slightly more definite, panelled base is pressed against its frame. Am sealed from the fate of pasts the past chiseled out from jams dismounted, unhinged from posts yet I am kept preserved in interiors exit each and every day to admire outsides, exteriors... absorb what brief pleasures exist yet existence is itself a question. When reality works between clear and overcast my flag stands tall then at halfmast knobs are turned, entrances sealed shut birth and death cycle clogs my fine rut... I knew the exit was there when I saw it but where I came from has been mutated departures from other nations vaguely present old world cultures assimilated entrances and exits then transformed and sculpted fresh from newer citizens whose lives of different cultures open and close as hinged doors open and close. I have sought to enter and discover truths between door jam, hinges, panelled slabs called doors... but all I have done is open, close enter and about to exit... once I have no further purpose. [This message has been edited by ecrivan (10-01-2004 05:35 PM).] |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
But rarely a revolving door. Much food for thought, as always. You do write words to ponder good man.  If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. |
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ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state |
a revolving door policy as excerised by many telemarketing places that work on replacing the sheep that enter... |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
I have read this twice, and will definitely have to read again. I find this to be full of intrigue and though I feel initially that I understand most of this, I have a feeling there is much more there. I truely enjoyed the read(s) as it makes you think and I really like that about this. Great write. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"I have sought to enter and discover truths between door jam, hinges, panelled slabs called doors..." This is more than many of us ever attempt, and I do believe you've entered and observed more than you might think. |
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Ivy Rose Senior Member
since 2001-12-29
Posts 1300MA, USA |
I don't think you are just talking about doors and hinges, opening and shutting doors. My sense of this is that it is a statement about the war and our policies. It is about slamming the door shut on other cultures and locking ourselves into something you believe is like a revolving door foreign policy. I may be way off base but this is just what I thought of as I read this poem. You might be saying there is a door of exit but we haven't walked through it yet. Still, I think we have opened the doors to the possibility of freedom for these unfortunate people. But to keep the door to freedom open, means the struggle continues until we shut the doors on terrorism. Otherwise, we will be continuing the struggle in greater force upon these shores. |
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ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state |
Actually I wasn't thinking of America in this one, it was more of a personal search for something real in this life...but since you mention the conflict in Iraq, I'll throw in Afghanistan and Palestine too, since they're all connected. On the contrary I don't think the American involvement there is opening the door for new opportunities, it's highly meddlesome and provocative that's going to resonate for some time as people are waking up to the facts behind diplomatic duplicity in American foreign policies. I say this respectful of the fact that America helped to reconstruct Europe after the second World War and is the better of the lot of other nations where there is much less consideration of the value of human lives.Its a sad state of affairs if you ask me. |
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